# British passenger says £110,000 cruise was worthwhile despite abrupt suspension

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/brit-70-who-paid-110k-to-live-on-never-ending-cruise-says-it-was-obvious-from-the-start-things-were-going-wrong-but-insists-it-was-worth-every-penny-despite-being-dumped-in-cambodia/
- Published: 2026-11-01T10:13:02+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-01T10:32:33+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16252511/Brit-cruise-wrong-worth-penny-dumped-Cambodia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Art, Culture, UK, World

## Key points

- Villa Vie suspended Odyssey operations in Cambodia.
- Julia Witt says the cruise’s business model looked unsustainable.
- She still believes her £110,000 journey was worth the cost.

## Summary

Villa Vie Residences suspended operations of its Odyssey cruise, leaving passengers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, after giving them seven hours’ notice. British passenger Julia Witt, 70, says the business looked unsustainable from the start because the company charged too little, but she still considers the £110,000 she paid for the experience worthwhile.

Witt travelled with her partner, Keith Gallocker, and said the cruise offered food, entertainment, cleaning and travel ashore at a cost she considered good value. Some couples reportedly paid up to $9,000 a month in maintenance, while monthly fuel costs rose from an average of $1,800 to an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia. Other passengers had planned to rely on low monthly costs for years and are now struggling.

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